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Title: Chambers Family
Dates: 1940s-1980s
Collection Number: 10815
Quantity: 4.5ft
Abstract: Papers of the families of Russell and Lucille (Morton) Chambers and Charles Morton. Much of the collection relates to Chambers’ career as an electrical engineer in Bismarck. Also includes correspondence, photos, and scrapbooks of the Morton family.
Provenance: The State Historical Society of North Dakota acquired the Chambers Family Papers from Roger Rieger in September 2001.
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Biographical Sketch
William Russell Chambers was born to Mr. and Mrs. Leslie A. Chambers in Grand Forks, North Dakota on February 28, 1920. The family including his sisters Elaine, Phyllis and Fern, moved to Neche where Chambers attended school. He attended the North Dakota School of Science and earned a degree in electrical engineering from North Dakota State University. He served in the Navy in World War II. He was married to Lucille Morton in Bismarck on November 24, 1945. She was born to Clarence D. and Jannette H. Morton November 24, 1921 and had two brothers: Robert J. and Charles D., and two sisters: Marie and Ruth Ann. She graduated from Bismarck High School in 1939 and attended the Mehus Conservatory under the voice instruction of Ralph Warren Soule. Lucille and Russell had two children, Wayne and Linda (Mrs. Warren Knapp, Denver CO).
Chambers worked for Montana Dakota Utilities in Omaha NE, Watertown and Mobridge SD and in Bismarck as an electrical engineer. Chambers died on May 3, 1979 in Bismarck. Lucille died on April 2, 1997 in Lakewood, Colorado.
Box / Folder Inventory
Box 1:
1 Electrical Growth Research Notes Bismarck ND 1972
2 Electric wires
3 Tear Sheets
4 Wally Kroeber
5 Dakota Systems Fault Study 1959
6 Voltage Drop
7 Engineers Meetings
8 W.G. Eisenbraun 1974
9 Line Dept. 1969-1970
10 Substation Dept. 1969
11 Meter Dept. 1962-1964
12 A.I.E.E. 1964
13 A.F. Andersen & O.J. Poleen 1959-1968
14 Dickinson Office 1957-1960
15 Transmission Standard
16 L.H. Schaefer 1956-1961
17 L.R. Thorsen 1959-1969
18 R.A. Dewberry 1960
19 H.K. Porter Co. 1958-1960
20 Joslyn 1959-1965
21 Board of Administration, Mr. James Fine, Chairman
22 Ken Tompe 1959-1962
23 Hughes Bros. R.R. Dennis 1959
24 E.F. Grovender 1957-1965
25 Line Material Co 1967
26 Williston Office 1960
27 Survey Notes
28 Walt Rieche 1967
29 Ed Schmit 1964-1972
30 Westinghouse 1960-1962
31 Linton Office 1961
32 Herb Wallender Elgin Office 1964-1968
33 Earl Heck Napoleon Office 1961-1962
34 Glen Ullin Office 1957-1959
35 Beanie Richards Steele Office 1959-1964
36 L.M. Wells 1961-1965
37 Bergstrom-Verbarg Co 1959-1968
38 Mobile Trans 1962-1967
39 Civil Defense 1964
40 Acct. Dept. 1963-1972
41 Illumination Dept 1964
42 Yard Light 1965-1966
43 Safety 1967-1973
44 Beulah Office 1967
45 Elgin Office 1969
46 Electric Auto
47 Economic Service Limit
48 Golf Cart
49 Moving Heavy Equipment 1969
50 URD Conference 1969
51 Corrosion 1969
Box 2:
1Power Cable
2 Cable Terminal Fuse
3 Transformer Vault
4 Substations
5 O.S.H.A. 1972
6 City of Bismarck
7 City of Bismarck Street Lights
8 District Street Lights
9 Car #2133
10 Transformer Pad
11 Apartments
12 Power Use Council
13 Junior Achievement
14 Load Study, Highland Acres 1969
15 Bismarck - Underground Primary, Broadway (3rd-9th)
16 Underground Electric Distribution 1968
17 Distribution Line Construction Contract (Labor Only) US Dept. Of Agriculture REA
18 Bismarck Office, Notebooks 1962
19 STC Sectionalizers
20 Voltage Regulator - General
21 Power Factor
22 National Handling
23 Underground
Box 3:
1 Tom Sawyer
2 General Electric
3 McGraw-Edison
4 Outdoor Master Unit Substation
5 Automatic Meter Reader
6 Station Transformer Replacement Schedule 1971
7 Reference Books
8 Personnel
9 Reference Materials
10
11 Applications for Employment
12 Company Correspondence
13 E. Engineers
14 SD 35-B2 Bennett
15 Math 423. Finance
16 Class Notebooks
Box 4:
1 Power Apparatus & Systems, Electrical Engineering Journal 1957-1958
2 Charles Morton Letters To and From 1948-1952
3 Charles Morton Letters To and From 1948-1951
4 Charles Morton Letters To and From 1945-1947
5 Charles Morton Correspondence/Papers 1944
6 Charles Morton-Photographs, Yosemite National Park taken by Ansel Adams Studios during WWII 1944-1945
7 Correspondence-Morton Family 1960-1961
8 Correspondence to Morton Family from Muriel, Isabelle & Evelyn 1970-1973
9 Mrs. C.D. Morton Records 1959
10 C.D. Morton Estate settlement papers 1959
11 Clarence Morton: Building Data 1019 1st St 1950s
Box 5:
1 Photograph - Evelyn & Janette Hart
2 Photograph - Charles Morton?
3 "Time to Dance" Recital Program
4 Textbooks
5 Morton, Ruth: Scrapbook
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